Divided British government doesn't know what it wants

Ball is in Theresa May’s court, says Taoiseach, but it seems clear she has no gameplan

With the unravelling of an agreed form of wording on the Irish Border the deadline for phase one of the Brexit talks is looming ever closer. Cliff Taylor reports

British prime minister Theresa May: It seems incredible that, 18 months after the Brexit vote, the British government has not spelled out what exactly it wants from the negotiations. Photograph: Andy Rain/Bloomberg